[Rarebooks] For Sale: 1831 TREATISE ON SILK MANUFACTURE

[Norman Kane]

[PORTER, GEORGE RICHARDSON.]   TREATISE ON THE ORIGIN, PROGRESSIVE 
IMPROVEMENT, AND PRESENT STATE OF THE SILK MANUFACTURE.  London: 
Printed for Longman  &c, 1831.  First edition.  Engraved title. Extra 
series title for The Cabinet of Useful Arts  edited by Dionysius Lardner.
8vo, xv, 339 pages, old half calf with marbled boards, spine stamped 
in gold, a nice copy.  Pencilled signature on end paper of A. S. 
Houghton.  Many woodcut illustrations.  (Porter, a statistician, was 
author of "The Progress of the Nation" & head of the Statistical 
Dept. of the Board of Trade.)   $110.00
(Trade Discount Available)


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